laze about

present singular third person lazes about · participle present lazing about · participle past lazed about · past lazed about

1. informalintransitiveTo do nothing in particular; to be idle.

   No, I don’t like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done.

   1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I

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   “I think it’s simply marvellous,” enthused Joyce, into the mirror, “that I’ve been able to adjust so quickly to office routine, don’t you? . . . After all these years of indulging myself, sleeping late, pottering, lazing about! […]”

   1929, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter 15, in Magnificent Obsession, New York: P.F. Collier, page 245

   Synonyms: laze around, loaf, loaf about, loaf around